Ranjith Venkatesh

Category: Evaluation

  • Paramoji Speech Flow

    I love crafting and making speeches.

    I love tools which analyse and give insights into my speeches.

    Last week I attended a AI Innovators meetup organized at KI Reply in Munich. One of the sessions was “Human emotions at scale” presented by Stefan Dirnstorfer.

    I liked the way he compared the tweets and opinions of Trump and Biden before and after the debate, Rishi and Keir before and after the election results using Paramojis.

    “A paramoji is a parametric smiley face that represents facial expressions on continuous scales” – Stefan Dirnstorfer

    I was wondering if I could follow the emotional rollcoaster that a speech takes the audience through.

    Using ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and the PHP code snippet from Stefan I wrote a small application which created the above Paramoji Speech Flow.

    I like the way in Page 1, you can note that emotionally in every 5 sentences there is happy and sad emotion (deliberately simplifying emotions for discussion)

    I like the way in Page 4, you can notice the excitement in the mouth and eye gestures.

    How do you analyse and learn from insights from your speeches?

    Links:

    [HYBRID] AI in Software development lifecycle, Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup

    Paramoji

  • Evaluate @ Agile Lean Munich

    It was fun to be at the Agile Lean Munich this year (2023).

    Last year, I did a session on Impromptu speaking with the Agilists in attending. This year I offered to share my ideas on listening and evaluating speeches or presentations.

    We had a fun group of people who turned up and were ready to practice both impromptu speaking and evaluation!!

    We did a bit of theory by asking questions

    What was good with examples and what may be improved with suggestions to improve.

    We had one participant talk about screen cleaners, one about vegan food in conferences, one about mindfulness.

    The participants very quickly picked active listening and were able to find what was good with examples and what may be improved with suggestions.

    If you are interested in a learn and practice program over 3 to 4 months or a one day training just have a look below and contact me for more:

    Speaker Shine Series – Ranjith Venkatesh | Speaker Shine

  • 1 + 1 = 3

    I believe that 1 plus 1 can be 3 if the synergy of Evaluation is provided to a Speech.

    I had the opportunity to evaluate a speech on Math for the District 95 (Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden) Evaluation contest finals.

    We had 8 Speech Evaluators from clubs all around District 95 finding the good things with examples and things to improve with suggestions.

    I hope our target speaker went home enriched with all the positive Evaluations.

    I won the contest for the second time at the District Level and here is the video of my Evaluation:

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